@id018q4583: "Ok having upped by budget again, I've decided on the following, which i'll 
buy sometime after xmas. Now spending 350 which is going to buy me this :
-Abit AV8 3rd eye guru mobo
abit seem to make decent mobos and this one does everything i'd like. 
Although does anyone know the difference between the av8 guru and the av8 
"3rd eye" guru?
-AMD A64 3200+ winchester 90nm (retail for now, will sort out a decent HSF 
too)
was going to go for the 3000 but decided i could stretch to this. turns out 
the different between the 3000 and 3200 in socket 754 format is the l2 
cache, and in 939 the difference is in the clock speed! confusing!!!
-Twinmos 1gb dual channel pc3200 kit (2x512)
seems like good value at 75 quid, are twinmos any good? I've always used 
crucial memory, but have always heard the name twinmos floating around. 
reviews seem to say "ok, not great, no good for overclocking, good 
value"...seeing as i wont be overclocking this seems ok, but if anyone has 
an alternative then let me know please!
-Maxtor diamondmax +10 NCQ 160gb SATA hard drive
I was going to get a seagate, as i love my current seagate, but this has 
been getting excellent reviews. "
    @id018q4583: ""Iain Dingsdale" <email_address> wrote in message 
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scratch those 2, make that a newcastle 3200 and a DFI lanparty"
    @john: "<email_address> writes
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This is out of date. There are three different A64 3200+ chips:
Socket 939, 2.0GHz, 512K cache, Winchester core 
Socket 754, 2.2GHz, 512K cache, Newcastle core
Socket 754, 2.0GHz, 1MB cache, Clawhammer core
However, the clawhammer version hasn't been commonly available for
months.
John Jordan"
    @id018q4583: ""John Jordan" <email_address> wrote in message 
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and no doubt it will be a bit pricier. the newcastle is actually cheaper 
than the winchester, so i've decided to go for that as it means i can get 
the mobo i want too (DFI lanparty). I think for my budget this will give me 
a serious boost in performance...hopefully"
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